Al Bovik's research passions land at the nexus of visual neuroscience and digital pictures and videos, and how the capture, processing, transmission, and display of visual media can be perceptually optimized. He works with numerous technology companies throughout the television, social media, and cinematic industries including YouTube/Google, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Ericsson, and many others. His neuroscience-based algorithms process most of the traffic passing over the internet, ensuring better bandwidth utilization and optimized visual quality for hundreds of millions of viewers every day. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and Academia Europaea. Along the way he received the John Fritz Medal, the IEEE Edison Medal, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award, the RPS Progress Medal, and the Edwin H. Land Medal.
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Digital Video, Visual Neuroscience, Image Processing, Visual Perception, Augmented Reality, Streaming Video, Social Media, Image Quality, Video Quality
